Rethinking Popular Culture : Contempory Perspectives in Cultural Studies / Mukerji/Schudson; ed. by Michael Schudson, Chandra Mukerji.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mukerji/Schudson, Author.

Contributor:

Mukerji, Chandra, Editor.

Schudson, Michael, Editor.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (512 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [1998]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Rethinking Popular Culture selects some of the best and most important recent work analyzing popular culture. Drawing upon recent developments in cultural theory and the exciting new techniques of critical analysis, the essays in this volume break down disciplinary boundaries in a fresh and innovative fashion.Eclectic and wide-ranging, Rethinking Popular Culture includes works by authors in the humanities and social sciences. The essays touch on a variety of features of popular culture, from photography to fashion, romance novels to television, jokes to food habits.The editors' comprehensive introduction sets each essay in the context of intellectual developments in history, sociology, literature, and anthropology and in the study of popular culture as a whole. Arguing that recent scholarship has revolutionized our understanding of popular culture, the editors articulate what that new perspective is while introducing some of the most influential and important work that gave rise to it.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Chapter 1. Introduction: Rethinking Popular Culture

PART I POPULAR CULTURE IN HISTORICAL STUDIES

Chapter 2. Printing and the People

Chapter 3. Workers Revolt: The Great Cat Massacre of the Rue Saint-Severin

Chapter 4. The Rise of the Saloon

Chapter 5. William Shakespeare and the American People: A Study in Cultural Transformation

Chapter 6. The Dream World of Mass Consumption

PART II POPULAR CULTURE IN ANTHROPOLOGICAL STUDIES

Chapter 7. Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight

Chapter 8. La Pensee Bourgeoise: Western Society as Culture

Chapter 9. Jokes

PART III POPULAR CULTURE IN SOCIOLOGICAL STUDIES

Chapter 10. Processing Fads and Fashions: An Organization-Set Analysis Cultural Industry Systems

Chapter 11. Movies of the Week

Chapter 12. Sport and Social Class

Chapter 13. Cultural Entrepreneurship in Nineteenth-Century Boston: The Creation of an Organizational Base for High Culture in America

Chapter 14. The Public Sphere

PART IV POPULAR CULTURE IN CULTURAL CRITICISM

Chapter 15. Base and Superstructure in Marxist Cultural Theory

Chapter 16. The Suit and the Photograph

Chapter 17. Written Clothing

Chapter 18. What Is an Author?

Chapter 19. Interpretive Communities and Variable Literacies: The Functions of Romance Reading

CONTRIBUTORS

INDEX

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Jan 2024)

ISBN:

0-520-35464-8

OCLC:

1419788672